Gifts from the Celestial Kingdom
Subtitle: a shipwrecked cargo for Gold Rush California
By: Thomas N. Layton.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Frolic (Brig); Shipwrecks -- California -- Mendocino County -- History -- 19th century; Ships -- Cargo -- California -- Mendocino County -- History -- 19th century; Excavations (Archaeology) -- California -- Medocino County; Mendocino County (Calif.) -- Antiquities; United States -- Commerce -- China; China -- Commerce -- United States; California -- Commerce -- China; China -- Commerce -- California
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1 The Archaeologist; title: CHAPTER 2 Alta California, Repuiblica Mexicana, I844; title: CHAPTER 3 The Eveline: Canton, China, 1849; title: CHAPTER 4 The Frolic: Canton, China, I850; title: CHAPTER 5 Point Cabrillo, California, I850; title: CHAPTER 6 The Wreck Divers; title: CHAPTER 7 The Cargo; title: Epilogue.